Minneapolis police are investigating the Sunday shooting death of a man in the city’s Willard-Hay neighborhood.

Officers responded shortly before 7 p.m. to reports of a shooting at 16th and Morgan avenues, where they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound, according to a news release issued by the Minneapolis Police Department.

Officers began CPR on the man, but he was not breathing and had no pulse, the news release said. Paramedics took the man to North Memorial Health Hospital, where he died a short time later.

The man’s identity and cause of death will be released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner.

Investigators are interviewing several potential witnesses. Police are asking anyone with information about the shooting to call at 800-222-8477, or to text 847411 (enter MPD, a space, and then the information).

Nick Woltman reports on breaking news and blogs about local history. Before joining the staff of the Pioneer Press in 2013, he worked for the Bismarck Tribune in North Dakota. He lives with his wife and two cats in the Macalester-Groveland neighborhood of St. Paul.

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